Modern Battle Tanks and Support Vehicles

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Centurion Danish Centurion - approximately 110 basic Centurion Mk 3 upgraded to Mk 5 standard retaining 20 pdr gun and 105 other Mk 3 converted to Centurion Mk 5/2 standard with a 105 mm L7A3 rifled gun firing APFSDS-T, smoke, HESH and APDS ammunition types, an Ericsson Microwaves laser rangefinder sight for the gunner and a 12.7 mm MG anti-aircraft gun which is being phased out of service. Mk 7 - fitted with the 20 pdr gun (with 63 rounds of ammunition), extra fuel tankage, upgraded weapon control system and

UK many other minor improvements to internal/external features and equipment. Mk7/2istheMk7upgurmedwiththe 105 mm L7 rifled gun. Mk 8/1 - uparmoured version of the Mk 8 with additional frontal glacis plate armour patch. The main gun remains the 20 pdr with 63 rounds of main gun ammunition. Swedish Centurion Strv 101 - approx 170 Mk 10 delivered in 1960 and subsequently upgunned with 105 mm L7 rifled guns and 8 mm MGs, fitted with turret direction

indicator, American radios and new auxiliary engine, now being phased out. Swedish Centurion Strv 102 - approx 270 Mk 3/Mk 5 delivered early to mid fifties (as the Strv 81) with most upgraded to Strv 102 standard with over 110 minor changes made and fitting of 105 mm gun, now being phased out. Swedish Centurion Strv 104 - in the early eighties, the Strv 101 and 102 started further modernisation programmes involving the fitting of an Ericsson Microwaves gunner's laser rangefinder


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M-84 Series, Former Yugoslavia

2min
pages 158-159

M47/M47M Patton, USA

2min
pages 155-157

M48A1/M48A2/M48A3 Series Patton, USA

2min
pages 152-154

M48A5 Patton, USA

3min
pages 148-151

M60A3/M60A3 TTS Patton, USA

2min
pages 140-143

M60/M60A1 Patton, USA

3min
pages 144-147

Abrams M1A1/M1A1(HA)/M1A2, USA

9min
pages 130-139

T-84, Ukraine

1min
pages 128-129

Centurion, UK

4min
pages 124-127

Vickers Defence Systems Mk 1/Mk 3, UK

1min
pages 122-123

FV4030/1.UK

3min
pages 118-121

Switzerland

10min
pages 105-117

Switzerland

2min
pages 103-104

T-64 Series, CIS

13min
pages 89-98

Bofors Stridsvagn (Strv) 103A/B/C, Sweden Swiss Ordnance Enterprise Pz 68 Series,

2min
pages 101-102

T-72, A, B (export) and M series, CIS

3min
pages 87-88

T-34-85, CIS

2min
pages 99-100

T-72 A, G and Ml Series, CIS

2min
pages 85-86

T-72B Series, CIS

2min
pages 83-84

T-72S Series, CIS

2min
pages 81-82

T-80U Series, CIS

2min
pages 75-77

T-90 Series, CIS

2min
pages 73-74

TR-580, TR-85, TR-800, Romania

2min
pages 66-67

OlifantMk lA/Mk IB, South Africa

1min
pages 68-69

PT-91, Poland

2min
pages 64-65

Kl (Type 88 or ROOT), South Korea

2min
pages 70-72

Vickers Defence Systems Khalid, Jordan

2min
pages 62-63

Mitsubishi Type 74, japan

1min
page 60

Swiss Ordnance Enterprise Pz

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page 61

Sho't (Upgraded Centurion), Israel

3min
pages 51-54

Mitsubishi Type 90, Japan

2min
pages 58-59

OTOBREDA OF-40 Mk 1/Mk 2, Italy

2min
pages 55-57

Mag'ach (Upgraded M48/M60 series Patton), Israel

2min
pages 49-50

Merkava Mk 1/Mk 2, Israel

2min
pages 46-48

Merkava Mk 3/Mk 4, Israel

3min
pages 44-45

ArjunMk 1, India

3min
pages 38-39

Vijayanta, India

2min
pages 40-41

Germany

2min
pages 34-35

T-55 variants, Iraq

2min
pages 42-43

Krauss - Maffei Leopard 2 to 2A5 Series, Germany Krauss - Maffei Leopard 1 to 1 A3 Series,

4min
pages 30-33

Germany

2min
pages 36-37

GIAT AMX-30/AMX-30 B2, France

2min
pages 28-29

GIAT Industries Leclerc, France

4min
pages 22-27

NORINCO Type 69/Type 79, PRC

2min
pages 14-15

Argentina

2min
pages 10-11

The Future

2min
pages 8-9

NORINCO Type 80/Type 85/Type 90, PRC

1min
pages 16-17

Vickers Defence Systems Challenger

4min
pages 2-4

Introduction

3min
pages 5-7

T-55AM, Former Czechoslovakia

4min
pages 18-21

NORINCO Type 59, People's Republic of China (PRC

2min
pages 12-13
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